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broadly oblanceolate, acute, glandular-pubescent, the mar- 
gins white-woolly, the outer series concave, partly enfolding 
the ray-achenes: rays ample, yellow, not distinctly nerved: 
disk-corollas narrow, hirsute throughout, the tube and the 
teeth most so; achenes sparsely hirsute; pappus dull-white, 
subplumose. 
Open woods of the middle Tule River in southeastern 
California, at an altitude of about 5,500 feet, C. A. Purpus, 
1897; the specimens in the U. S. Herbarium. The species 
is particularly remarkable on account of a certain approach 
which it makes to the genus Whitneya in the character of 
its pubescence, firm nerveless rays, and concave involucral 
bracts. 
A. Lesstnett. A. alpina, less., not Olin. A. angustifolia 
var. Lessingii, Torr & Gray, Fl. ii, 449. Larger plants a 
foot high or more, leafy to the middle, the leaves in about 
3 pairs, smaller plants 6 inches, more or less, the pairs of 
leaves all crowded at base of stem and the long peduncle 
scapiform: stem more or less villous-hirsute with reddish 
hairs; leaves from almost glabrous to scabrous-pubescent, 
the margins more strongly and softly pubescent, the largest 
3 inches long, oblong-lanceolate, some spatulately tapering 
to the broad short petiole, all rather remotely serrate- 
toothed and 3-nerved: head solitary, large, nodding: bracts 
of the involucre biserial, herbaceous, lanceolate, acute, pube- 
scent, often purplish: rays 8 to 12, more than an inch long, 
8-nerved, deeply notched or 3-dentate, light-yellow: disk- 
corollas with short villous tube and much longer, broadly 
subcylindric glabrous tube, the teeth naked, erect: achenes 
strongly striate-glabrous or seabrellous; pappus, dull-white 
or tawny, barbellate. 
A common and beautiful species of Alaskan shores and 
islands. 
